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title: "Epistemic Humility"
description: "Recognizing the limits of your own knowledge and holding beliefs with confidence proportional to the available evidence."
last_updated: "2026-08-02"
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# Epistemic Humility

Recognizing the limits of your own knowledge and holding beliefs with confidence proportional to the available evidence.

*Example: A brilliant physicist offers you confident stock tips, and you remember that expertise in one field doesn't transfer to another.*

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